Thursday, 03 May 2012
The Aviation Academy of Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, graduated 20 pilots and 22 Aviation Maintenance Technicians at a ceremony held at the airline headquarters on the 30th of April.The graduating pilots completed more than 695 hours of classroom and Multi-Engine aircraft training which included 60 hours of in flight training devices. The graduates have also qualified the ICAO level-1 English proficiency requirement as part of their training.
The Aviation Maintenance Technicians graduates have been trained with B737 Aircraft Avionics system course which enabled them to acquire the required theoretical and practical knowledge to qualify then as Aviation Technicians.
The new graduates will bring the total number of pilots graduated from the academy to 975 and the total number of technicians graduated adds up to 3079 since the beginning of the AMTS school.
The AMTS is currently running fifteen parallel classes with a total of 454 trainees, ten of which are third party trainees from Namibia, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia and Liberia.
Ethiopian recently launched a new pilot training program with an agreement with Flight Path International, a company based in Canada and implemented the Multi Crew Pilot License Training Program. The MPL program is a new pilot training and licensing system established by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2006 to qualify first officers.
Source: Ethiopian Airlines Press Release
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